The Nation - News from Sept. 12, 1988

Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh, seeking to deflect Democratic attacks on the Reagan Administration, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he will prosecute foreigners who traffic in illegal drugs. Thornburgh said the Justice Department was proceeding with its drug case against Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel A. Noriega and would pursue any other cases that involved foreign leaders if U.S. laws were broken. Democratic presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis has said the Administration’s anti-drug efforts, led by his Republican rival, Vice President George Bush, have failed. Recently it was learned that aides in Bush’s campaign worked as public relations consultants for the Bahamas to help counter accusations that the island government cooperated with drug traffickers.